Varieties of Social Knowledge pulls together recent trends in social sciences to revisit classic epistemological questions such as whether knowledge of the social is fundamentally distinct from knowledge of the natural and whether there is a distinct method for investigating the social.

We are interested in the advent of machine learning and predictive analytics, metaphysics and modeling of cultural change, the growing importance of mixed methods (such as the use of case-study and interview evidence in causal inference), and the ways in which ethical and political values have a place in shaping social sciences.